Holiday Gift Guide: Testing the Ice by Robinson and Nelson

In the early 1950s, legendary baseball hero Jackie Robinson literally "tested the ice" for his kids who so eagerly wanted to skate on the frozen lake near their home. Under Sharon Robinson's skillful authorship and Kadir Nelson's vivid illustrations, TESTING THE ICE also becomes a stunning metaphor for her father's remarkable racial breakthrough.

Sharon did a wonderful job sharing her father’s memory and his legend of being the famous first negro Major League Baseball player. Kadir Nelson did a superb job with the illustrations in Testing the Ice as well. The drawings are eye-popping, bold and colorful. In my opinion it is a great book to read aloud in a group setting, or silently on your own.

Recently, I got to review this wonderful book. It is illustrated with and now I get to share it with you. If this is a book that you would like to share with your family this holiday season, please sign up for a chance to win.

Four (4) additional winners will receive a copy of the book!($16.99 each)

A special thanks to Scholastic for sponsoring this giveaway. If you have won this prize in a past contest, please do not sign up. The winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize or another reader(s) will be chosen.This contest begins Friday, October 16, 2009 and runs until November 8, 2009 at 11:59 PM EST.Prizing is only available to United States mailing address only. (International readers can enter if they have a friend in the States who can accept their prizes by mail.) Winners will be chosen using random selection and comments will be verified. Thank you.

~GAhome2mom
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Disclaimer: Thanks to Scholastic, Inc. I received a copy of Testing the Ice by Robinson/Nelson to review.

55 comments:

A great memory from my childhood is from when my family went camping up in Silver Lake, MI and we went parasailing and then into the dunes where my dad almost rolled our Jimmy (with the whole family in it)! It's one of those things you just don't forget!

I remember driving to visit my grandparents in N. D. and getting stuck in a snowstorm. Our car went off the road, we were all fine and so was our car, but I remember my grandpa coming and carrying me out of the our car and into his car. :)